THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 111 THE NEWS SCIMITAR gAGB ELEVEN KUHN MANICURING KOHANAMOKU HAD NOTHING ON GRANEY MADE FIVE ERRORS JACK1ES; GROUNDS ON ONE GROUNDER Ex-Bi- g League Ground Keeper Mike Grady Holds Unique Helping Sailors. Record in Booting . GREAT LAKES, 111., Oot. 24. After SO years of manicuring big league BY W. A. PHILON. grounds, "Smiling Charley" Kuhn, Do vou remember that fitful, fata. daddy of all ground keepers, is in- day in Boston, two years (one, when stalled an master-at-arm- s nf the mag- ivan uieon let a bounding Dan rou ui) nificent athletic plant at Great Lake. his sleeve and convert htm Into a little Kuhn nursed the velvety monkey, and then, recovering the bell, grounds fired It ' from a big marshy meadow, used for wildlv into viiniv therebv SF- - occasional drilling, to one of the show greatly enlarging the score of the Red K sf M of the station. He knows Sox and contributing to the gayety of If places every fSmmmWW blade of grass by Its first name; la nations: Ann the call ot tne anion A. J X fSJSf familiar with every drop of water In scorer "Two errors for Olton? Sure the vast enclosure and woe be it to you do! the careless sailor who dares make a Two errore. off one rolling grounder short cut across his precious baseball That waa, it Is believed, the record for e was no- diamond. a world series game, but it -- t saw ' On the Job from sunrise to taps It where near the record for all time. That jMj Is Kuhn's self admitted Job to main- record, If my memory serves me right, aj PjHBbw tain the finest athletto field in tho was made hv Mike Grady one blithe day country-- ' That he has succeeded is nearly 20 veart ago, and the scene Is as self evident one look is convincing of fresh In tne eve today at though It had hli skill. lust happened this very afternoon. There was no big league diamond There are some baseball acenet that that excelled Kuhn a station layout vou can never forget, no matter how when games were being played at Great long you live or how many things you ' lAkca during the past season. Charley's tee, and If I should live a thousand soccer field Is carpeted with the finest years I would never forret this haonen- - of Kentucky blue grass. His tootball lna-- t gridirons are masterpieces experience It waa In Chicago, at the old Cub alone could turn out such stretches When the freak stunts In big league get home if the play at first were poor. park, and Mike was then a member of of green between the white cross lines. baseball are compiled, if any bug ever The bunt had hern down first base the Giants -- lust a oatcher without pre t when Charley knocked at the navy decides to do It, Jack Qranev's famous line, and there wasn't a chance to tensions otherwise. Karlv in the door he ran across age limits which swim at Detroit ought to be a chap- catch Graney at third, hence Jack fig- afternoon, Rill Joyce and the umpire barred him from service. Not to be ter by itself. ured the play would he made at first. had hard words, and Mr. Joyce went daunted Kuhn wag accepted as a civil- The Indian left fielder probably It Instead of that the Tiger first packer awav from there, leavlnc a large, yawn ian employo through the efforts of the only player who ever Introduced neined tie ball and zipped It to third, ing cavity on tnird. .Mine uraay, wuo Commander J. B. Kaufman, athletic the Australian crawl Btroke to base- (iraney saw the play a he rounded never did much care what happened to officer, who realized his exceptional ball. third and turned to recover that base. him, volunteered and went to the ter ability. Jack called on the stroke only once, A huge puddle lay between him and tiary cushion, reopl Began to hit the For more than 20 years Charley Kuhn but he outdid Kohanamoku, Hawaiian safety. Oraney started for tho hag. ball: m ess than no time, so it teemea. presided at the old Cuba' park on the wonder, that timi His foot slipped in the ooie at the edge the sacks were lammed, and there were west Side of Chicago. He served un- It happened during the first series of Of the middle and he fell forward In two men down. At thla Juncture a nice der a string of Bruin presidents and the season between the Indians and the water. Undismayed he Tlnundered little roller waa hit right at suae Incidentally saw Charley Murphy run Tigers at Detroit in the spring of 1916. to the bag, buried In the spray he Orady his "shoe string Into a million" dur- Jack was on second Trls Sneaker laid kicked up. When he came up for air Mr. (Sradv rushed in. and fumbled It ing the hevdav of Frank Chance. down a bunt and Jack lit out for third--. with his hand on the tag the umps nrofiKftiv Vlcklnr It tin. he whirled. This old park, according to major tie thought there might be a chance to alien mm sale. ball In hand, to see If there waa any is chance to leaguers, had an infield that rarely tag anybody .Nothing noing sBtb aaaBBBBBB aBBBBBBBaMaBa1aBBBatBBBHaaaaBiBBBBBBBBw equalled these days. and the fumble constituted one error. 'km awidai ca Brain 01'- Included in Kuhn's constructive WhirlingJ" . ' lour, after. the first ., reer la the historic athletic field at ror naa neen registered, .nr. vnaur the University of Illinois, varsity ath- made a aunerflunua and wholly subse 'mhmtSmWmSKmmWfsi 1 Ww letes claim the Illinois stadium has no quentlal throw toward first. The ball fBM 1BF gUlL x J wSjfflsMtTI eoual in the western conference. went nigh, shot rar aDove ine nrsi oese- Kuhn has laid out training camps at man's head und ennt intted to the Stand Palestine, Tex., St. Petersburg, Ha., Which the same made two errori for South- Mr.- - Martin Springs, Tex. and other Grartv. ' : ern spots where big league clubs visit The rliht fielder retrieved the leather LaaLaaaa' '"iSwAw In the spring. Charley went ahead, and. seelnt- a runner lighting out from worked mlrucles on some vacant field second, snot it, most oeauuiuuy, across and presto there was a major league to third Mr flraiv took the ball ill MF"" Infield ready for use. both hands, on ,a dead line and muffed aapS W'' It Inst as the dinner drew near. 'inat made three errors. That runner kept WHY DO RUNNERS right on, turned third, and acooted for the plate. Mr. uraay pnwea arounu One of the most horrors is from a recent attack of while, found the ball andathrew It over pronounced recovering time the- - fellow TO BAG of jlh e world war has made Itself ap- Herb had a touch tho catcher. By this SLIDE BACK pneumonia. time 1... l,n,l hit the bllll WAS ail- - - parent since the Internment of pro- with the flu and pneumonia, but he put &t&F: mT mm fessional baseball In the form of a flood a and came proaching third. The catcher dashed aBBBBBeraeBBBBBtBBBBBEaBBTasaBBBBBBeT lMibt& ,x jo&&bfatSSSBBeBBHr ' Mf SBrgtBaHaBlasOI up fame flslit out vie liaeV and fired It ar aBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBBBBW Hp?WBQBaBBaBBBBR0. mm jBtwQJLa KM MM Go- of suggestions and advice from torious. regained the ball Easiest Thing Is to Keep scribes to baseball is soon to resume rowrttraTght to Mf. Grady. Mr. Grady the magnates Herb training for muffed it kicked it far awav and the regarding the course the club owners an iniantry officers commission and "fiSTta taaaFrsBtaaal MM ing, Says Fred Tenney. should when the rainbow of exnects to he the coveted Bast runner galloped In. Out of the atMi pursue, snorting box rose the voice 01 tne omciai peace appears. shoulder bars before many days have press ttaV Fred Tennev. ereatest of first base who can scorer. "Five errors for Grady!" HsHtHM LptHBuLwiuBsaW Jtgaa LaaPSirflCLf jtaa sew Every expert elapsed. errors -- men In cannot see base crowd hie a Five errors on one ban live LaWf iieMXiMslltlElf VmTli'WFmB HHHBiitaatsaaaaaaaaaM MM MM hlstlfne, why knees under typewriter off one arounrier If that Isn't the rec 0 M runners, when jl catcher tries to uinch table has felt It his bounden to Mathewson has landed over- duty Christy ord for all tune, what tbem off first, with a snap throw, do save the national flame by holding aloft seas and has joined Hank Gowdy, is: 1 not Immediately light out lor secona the beacon light by which the groplnfl drover Alexander and the other illus- base, like Charlev Hollocher. of the magnates may discover the proper ave- trious heroes of baseball who are play Cubs, did in the second world's series nue of escape from the present crisis. ing use rugger game. game in Boston. That contest was These poor, struggling magnatee have t t SPORT SHRAPNEL mm taffigfaij the first title game Tenney ever had only been able to make such paltry Fred Mitchell, Cub manager, It out Bl' ngpB seen. The play on Hollocher turned sums as may be In seven fig- with an the iBPtbtPI written alibi for tussle and losing world't the complexion of the ures out of the national game. teries to the Red Sox. Mitchell taye brought from Tenney the information The business of baseball Is like any the lots of Grover Cleveland Alexander Johnnv Kllbane, featherweight cham- ejthat there isn't a chance In 100 Cor a other, and the men behind the hurt the Cubs' and of wants it to the ball to second game pitching staff that pion the world, distinctly first baseman get have spent their lifetime learning by ir ne could have had Big Alex avail- understood that he is king and will be in time to stop the runner it ine run experience how the business end of able to pit aaaintt the Hose of Hub- - until he comers tne tine on some-lenn- ner sroes ahead.